Shaggai

Oh, wow. I didn't even realize that. Also, Rosharan years are a bit longer than Earth years. She's still too young, but not quite a 13-year-old.

He got the throne because Lift didn't submit an application and wasn't a candidate.

I found the first couple Alcatraz books, read them, and liked them. A few years later, I saw some of his other books and realized that this was the same guy. So I read those. Now I'm here.

The thing is that Rashek has never learned that because every time it's happened, they haven't been able to harm him at all. Double gold does wonders, and when you can Steelpush on their literal blood they can't do anything. Why waste the effort to kill them instantly when there's nothing whatsoever they can do to you?

Yeah.

Truthwatcher. I can probably see the future, I can disguise myself, and I can use Progression to cure all the zombies I come across.

He's obviously going to end up with Gaz.

Maybe, but the glow and the lashings would both be explained by some sort of extra bond required for Plate to fully function.

This much, at least, is pretty much confirmed by one of the WoR epigraphs.

I kind of doubt this. The whole 9 out of 10 thing applied to one of the later Desolations, and Odium apparently got better over time. That figure could have been significantly lower in past Desolations. Humanity could have survived. I also suspect that Epochs were not defined by Desolations - there were certainly other events to define them. The varying strength of Odium's attacks, the emergence of the Knights Radiant, the level of technology attained between Desolations, cycles of ten Desolations (which could easily have had different characteristics, as ten is the holy number of Honor and seems to have some connection to Odium), and so on.

Well, ordinary Stormlight healing is confirmed to be Cognitive, so Regrowth would probably be an even more powerful version of that. Lift fixing that guy, for example.

So it wasn't an eroded dragon curve after all. Well, at least it's been cleared up.

Yes. As long as their brain is intact, it works, because it's Cognitive healing and can regrow the soul.

It was a Regrowth fabrial.

Okay, I'm going to compile the evidence for (and a little against) my theory. Here it is: 1. The unique shape of Shardplate. Similarly to Shardblades, the Plate-spren would create their own physical manifestation. This is the same mechanism as Soulcasting, which is convincing a spren (in the case of an object, the spren of the object) to have a different physical manifestation. 2. The mist. Shardblades, the Shardplate in the visions, and Soulcasting all cause some physical manifestation of a spren to change, visibly looking like mist. 3. The effects of Plate on its wearers. Plate gives enhanced speed and strength, and can heal. These are the same effects as infusing a person with Stormlight. Therefore, the Plate contains a Cognitive entity (a spren) to provide the Plate with the benefits of Stormlight. These facts explain why Plate fails without Stormlight. 4. The adaptation of Plate to its wearer. The Plate obviously has some sort of bond with the wearer. This is probably done through the gemstones, which are known to be able to create such a bond. 5. Shardplate can block Shardblades, but it cracks. Shardblades proper are indestructible. However, Shardplade cracks, suggesting that it contains a highly reinforced physical object as opposed to a pure physical manifestation of a Cognitive entity. The reinforcement is done by spren. There are, however, some possible holes, which might be evidence against it. 1. Why did Shardplate glow? I suspect there was some sort of ritual that more fully bonded the Plate with its bearer, so it would glow. 2. Why does it interfere with Lashings? The same reason, perhaps, as above. It didn't do so back during the Desolations, because the armor was bonded. 3. Why doesn't the Stormlight in the Plate heal the Plate when damaged, during normal combat? I don't actually know. This may be by design - healing would consume Stormlight, and running out of Stormlight could be devastating on the battlefield. Again, these answers are speculation and aren't part of the main theory. So. There you have it. Any thoughts on how I'm obviously wrong about all of this, and here's why?

I know, I was joking.

Incidentally, the dragon curve does tessellate. So the tessellation theory would hold true if Roshar is an eroded dragon curve.

"Kaladin's Sword of Honour"? "Touch it and be healed"? What, exactly, would this be selling?

I think Moash will join Odium. Ending up in a massive Kal/Moash showdown as champions of Honor and Odium.

The darkness within, burning through the soul like a storm of fire. Arise, darkness, and destroy! -A Veden fruit seller, 6 seconds pre-death.

Posted already through a Reddit link.

The tenth and sixteenth are the same, just with different levels of detail. Roshar looks like a dragon curve (of any sufficient level of detail. It could be a 10-fold curve, a 16-fold curve, or a 100-fold curve) with some extra islands and Shinovar added on, and the whole eastern end eroded by highstorms.

It's something more than a fabrial and less than a Nahel spren. It's a lesser spren, put with consent into a suit of armor. The spren shapes the armor and provides the powers, but being non-Nahel it doesn't reach full sentience or become fully indestructible. The gems form a temporary bond, like with Shardblades. The Radiants just did it better.

The use of spren would also account for the healing of Shardplate, and why it fits to each person.

Ah, I thought you meant "as a Skybreaker", because you only mentioned one of his powers.